HR

With the end of 2016 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top officials to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2017 – and shed some light on their festive favourites. Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer, takes part in our annual perm secs round-up...

HMRC’s Jon Thompson and MoD’s Stephen Lovegrove shed light on what the end of guided distribution will mean for staff, as Prospect union and the Public Service People Managers' Association give their take on getting performance management right

Head of the Public and Commercial Services union undergoes op after three months on stand-by at Papworth Hospital

Cross-department team behind HR reform proposals wins Reimagine Challenge. Matt Ross reports

Prime minister suggests civil servants are reluctant to speak their own minds to her and blames Whitehall for creating the acronym “JAMs”

Unions claim victory as Cabinet Office briefs on major change to civil service performance management system introduced by Francis Maude, including axing of requirement for guided distribution. CSW has the full detail and reaction

HMRC job ad says London Office will be moving to Canary Wharf as a "transitional site in summer 2017"

 Public Service Ombudsman would ditch the much-criticised "MP filter" and let members of the public make direct complaints about services

Cabinet Office says "around 5,700 full time civil and public servants" to make the move from central London to Canary Wharf by 2018

Ipsos Mori research shows a drop in trust of  politicians, ministers, business leaders, charity leaders, and the ordinary man in the street

PCS vote "does not change the fact" that redundancy overhaul "was accepted by the large majority of unions", says minister Michael Ellis, as SNP and Labour MPs blast government handling of the Compensation Scheme changes

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People